mosquito

See also: Mosquito

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EnglishEdit

Aedes aegypti biting a human.

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish mosquito (“gnat”), diminutive of Spanish mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūs- (“fly, stinging fly, gnat”). Cognate with West Flemish meuzie (“mosquito”), Swedish dialectal mausa (“mosquito”), Lithuanian musė (“a fly”). See also midge.

PronunciationEdit

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /məˈski.toʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒsˈkiː.təʊ/

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• Rhymes: -iːtəʊ

NounEdit

mosquito (plural mosquitos or mosquitoes)

1. A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin. However, only the female of the species bites animals and humans. They are known to carry diseases like malaria and yellow fever.

HypernymsEdit

• gnat
• midge

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from mosquito

• antimosquito
• malaria mosquito (Anopheles spp.)
• mosquito bar
• mosquito bite
• mosquitocide
• Mosquito Coast

• mosquito coil
• mosquitoey
• mosquito fern (Azolla)
• mosquitofish (Gambusia spp. et al.)
• mosquito fleet
• mosquitogenic

• mosquito hawk (Tipulomorpha or Epiprocta)
• mosquito net
• mosquito netting
• mosquito wire
• tiger mosquito (Aedes spp.)

Related termsEdit

• Diminutive: mossie/mozzie (Australia, UK) or skeeter (US)

TranslationsEdit

small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood

• Abkhaz: акәыбры (āḳ°əbrə)
• Afrikaans: muskiet
• Albanian: mushkonjë (sq)
• Arabic: بَعُوضَة‏‎ f (baʿūḍa), نَامُوسَة‏‎ f (nāmūsa)

  Egyptian: نَمُوسَة‏‎ f (namūsa)

  Hijazi Arabic: ناموسة‏‎ f (nāmūsa)

• Armenian: մոծակ (hy) (mocak)
• Aromanian: mushconj m, cunupi f, tsãntsar m
• Assamese: মহ
• Asturian: mosquitu m
• Azeri: ağcaqanad (az)
• Bashkir: серәкәй (seräkäy)
• Bau Bidayuh: pirungang
• Belarusian: кама́р m (kamár)
• Bengali: মশা (môsha)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: wabiba m

• Bikol Central: namok
• Bulgarian: кома́р (bg) m (komár)
• Burmese: ခြင် (my) (hkrang)
• Buryat: боргооhон (borgoohon)
• Catalan: mosquit (ca) m
• Cebuano: namok
• Central Melanau: kekiyaih
• Chamicuro: ayno
• Chechen: чуьрк (čürk)
• Cherokee: ᏙᏌ (dosa)
• Chichewa: udzudzu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蚊 (zh-yue) (man¹, man⁴)

  Mandarin: 蚊子 (zh) (wénzi)

  Min Nan: 蠓 (zh-min-nan) (báng)

• Cornish: moskito m
• Crimean Tatar: şırqıy
• Czech: komár (cs) m
• Danish: stikmyg c
• Darkinjung: dyuping
• Dupaningan Agta: namok
• Dutch: mug (nl) f, m, muskiet (nl) m
• Esperanto: kulo (eo)
• Estonian: sääsk (et), moskiito
• Faroese: mýggjabiti m, mýggjabit n, mýggj n (rare)
• Fijian: namu
• Finnish: hyttynen (fi), sääski (fi), moskiitto (fi)
• French: moustique (fr) m
• Galician: mosquito m
• Georgian: კოღო (ḳoɣo), ქინქლი (kinkli)
• German: Mücke (de) f, Stechmücke (de) f (commonest terms); Schnake (de) f (south-western); Gelse (de) f (south-eastern); Moskito (de) m (chiefly tropcial species)
• Greek: κουνούπι (el) n (kounoúpi)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: kíta
• Gujarati: મચ્છર (macchar)
• Hebrew: יַתּוּשׁ‏‎ (he) m (yatúsh), כּוֹלְכִית‏‎ f (kolchít)
• Hindi: मच्छर (hi) (macchar)
• Hungarian: szúnyog (hu)
• Icelandic: moskítófluga (is) f
• Ido: moskito (io)
• Indonesian: nyamuk (id)

  Acehnese: jamok

  Balinese: legu

  Banjarese: ñamuk

  Buginese: namoʔ

  Javanese: lemut

  Madurese: reŋŋeʔ

  Minangkabau: ranŋiʔ

  Sundanese: reungit

• Ingush: зунгат (zungat)
• Interlingua: mosquito, culice
• Irish: muiscít f
• Italian: zanzara (it) f
• Japanese: 蚊 (ja) (か, ka)
• Kalmyk: бөкүн (bökün)
• Kannada: ನುಸಿಸೊಳ್ಳೆ (nusisoḷḷe), ಸೊಳ್ಳೆ (kn) (soḷḷe)
• Kazakh: маса (kk) (masa), москит (moskït)
• Khanty:

  Kazym: пєԓӈа (pêḷňa)

• Khmer: មូស (km) (muuh)
• Kimaragang: rongit
• Komi-Zyrian: ном (nom)

• Korean: 모기 (ko) (mogi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: مێشوله‌‏‎

• Kyrgyz: чиркей (ky) (çirkey)
• Lao: ຍຸງ (lo) (nyung)
• Latgalian: ūds m
• Latin: culex m
• Latvian: ods (lv) m, dzēlējods m (formal), knislis m, knausis m (dialectism), moskīts m
• Lithuanian: uodas (lt) m, kuisys m (dial.), varmas m (dial.)
• Livvi: čakku, pinʼoi
• Luo: suna
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: комарец m (komarec)
• Malagasy: moka (mg)
• Malay: nyamuk (ms)
• Malayalam: കൊതുക്‌ (kotuk‌)
• Maltese: nemusa f
• Manchu: ᡤᠠᠯᠮᠠᠨ (galman)
• Manx: corveeyl f
• Maori: waeroa
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: шыҥа (šəŋa)

  Western Mari: шӹнгӓ (šə̈ngä)

• Marwari: माछर
• Mi'kmaq: glmuej anim
• Mongolian: шумуул (mn) (šumuul), дэлэнч (mn) (delenč)
• Navajo: tsʼíʼii daʼaneezíʼ, tsʼíʼii
• Ngarrindjeri: muruli
• Norman: moustique f
• Norwegian: mygg (no) m
• Occitan: moissal (oc) m, mosquilh (oc) m
• Old English: mycg m, gnætt
• Persian: پشه‏‎ (fa) (paše)
• Polish: komar (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: mosquito (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮੱਛਰ (macchar)
• Romanian: țânțar (ro) m
• Russian: кома́р (ru) m (komár), моски́т (ru) m (moskít)
• Samoan: namu
• Samogitian: koisis m
• Scottish Gaelic: mosgìoto m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: комарац m, комарица f

  Roman: komarac (sh) m, komarica f

• Sindhi: मछर‏‎
• Slovak: komár (sk) m
• Slovene: komar (sl) m
• Spanish: mosquito (es) m, mosco (es) m (Mexico), plaga (es) f (Venezuela), zancudo (es) m (Central America, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuelan standard usage)
• Supyire: lùpààn
• Swahili: mbu (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: mygga (sv) c
• Tagal Murut: namuk, tukung
• Tagalog: lamok
• Tajik: пашша (pašša), хомӯшак (tg) (xomüšak)
• Tamil: கொசு (ta) (kocu), மசகம் (ta) (macakam), மசம் (ta) (macam)
• Tatar: черки (tt) (çerki), озынборын (ozınborın)
• Telugu: దోమ (te) (dōma)
• Thai: ยุง (th) (yung)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sivrisinek (tr)
• Turkmen: çyybyn
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Udmurt: нымы (nymy), чибинь (ćibinʹ)
• Ukrainian: кома́р (uk) m (komár)
• Urdu: مچھر‏‎ m (macchar)
• Venetian: sginsała f, sginzała, sensała, sansała
• Vietnamese: muỗi (vi), con muỗi
• Volapük: muskit (vo)
• Welsh: mosgito m
• West Coast Bajau: namuk
• Wolof: yoo wi (wo)
• Xhosa: ingcongconi class 9/10
• Yiddish: קאָמאַר‏‎ m (komar)
• Yucatec Maya: k'oxol
• Zhuang: nyungz
• Zulu: umiyane (zu) class 1a/2a

VerbEdit

mosquito (third-person singular simple present mosquitos, present participle mosquitoing, simple past and past participle mosquitoed)

1. To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.

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GalicianEdit

NounEdit

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. mosquito

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Old SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From mosca, mosco (“fly”) +‎ -ito.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [mosˈki.to]

NounEdit

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. diminutive of mosca; a mosquito.
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 107v.

     […] ſera aguardado del danno delos moſquitos. ¬ de todas maneras de moſcas que seá pozonadas o mordedores. / Et eſto es mas deſcendiédo ſobreſta piedra la útud de fiǵa de moſq́to, o de alguna deſtas otras moſcas que dixiemos.

     […] he will be kept from the harm of mosquitos and all manners of flies that are venomous or that bite. And this will happen more when over this stone descends the virtue of the figure of the mosquito, or that of another one of the flies we mentioned.

DescendantsEdit

• Spanish: mosquito
  • English: mosquito

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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From mosca +‎ -ito

PronunciationEdit

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /muʃˈkitu/

NounEdit

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. mosquito

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Diminutive of mosca.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mosˈkito/

NounEdit

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. mosquito
2. gnat
3. diminutive of mosco, small fly

SynonymsEdit

• (mosquito): zancudo, moyote (Mexico)

Derived termsEdit

• mosquitero
• mosquito simúlido

See alsoEdit

• jején m